Dark Tourist (also The Grief Tourist) is a 2012 American psychological thriller film directed by Suri Krishnamma, written by Frank John Hughes, and starring Michael Cudlitz, Melanie Griffith, and Pruitt Taylor Vince.
Security guard Jim Tahana has a strange hobby: grief tourism – the act of travelling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. For his vacation this year, Tahana heads to the outskirts of New Orleans, to the backwater home of notorious serial killer Carl Marznap. But as Jim s rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate, his fascination with Marzap takes a shocking and violent detour that ultimately unlocks an unspeakable secret festering within him.